Improvement in combined shirts and drawers



H.1-I. H.1GROSSKOPF. COMBINED SHIRT AND nmwms. I $1 ,171,124. PatentedDec. 14, 1875.

@Iitmsszs N. PETERS. PNOTO-LIYHOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT, Orrron HENRY H. H. GROSSKOPF, or PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT lN COMBINED SHIRTS Al\lD DRAWER'S.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 17 1,124, datedDecember 14, 1875 application filed October 13, 1874.

new and useful Improvement in Combined Shirts and Drawers; and I dohereby declare the following to be a clear and exact description of thenature-thereof, sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to whichmy invention app'ertains to fully understand, make, and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of the device em--bodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section in line 00 00,Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre spending parts in the twofigures.

My invention consists in a combined shirt and pair of drawers with aflap or fall integral therewith, said fall passing from the rear underthe crotch to the front,where it is buttoned and fastened, wherebyprovision is made for purposes of necessity, and the shirt is held downand prevented from riding upward.

Referring to the drawings, A represents an outer or under shirt, and B apair of drawers, which is integral therewith or made in one. The shirtmay open in front or rear without in either case departing from myinvention, and be fastened in any well-known manner. 0 represents a flapor fall, which is arranged at the rear of the drawers, and opens'topermit access thereto. The flap will be continued to pass under thecrotch of the wearer, and is buttoned or fastened in front, so as to bereadily accessible thereat, and at the same time draw down the bosom ofthe shirt. It

will be seen that the shirt will set nicely, as

the drawers prevent the rising or upward riding of the shirt. The sameis true of the drawers, since they are sustained by-the shirt, and thusprevented from falling or working down, whereby the great inconveniencein shirts and drawers at present in use is overcome. The long tail of ashirt is also dispensed with, and thus there is great economy in myinvention. Besides this there can be no gathering of the shirt aroundand below the waist of the wearer, thus rendering the shirt portionexceedingly comfortable.

When a person applies the garment the shirt and drawers will be put on,as usually; but it will beseen that the drawers areimmediatelysupported, and require no buttoning or strapping to hold them inposition. The fla'p O is now closed and fastened, and the garment isproperly on the body.

In cases of necessity the flap is let down after the manner-of a fallordrop, whereby the other'portions of the drawers are not disturbed in anywise, and the front of the body is not uncovered, thus preventingexposure thereof and obviating liability of the wearer taking cold.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The combined shirt and drawers, having the rear flap 0 extending forwardunderthe crotch and upward in front, substantially as

